I’ll Trade You A General, Part Two

On our last episode, we left things in this precarious situation:

American second in command General Charles Lee had been captured by the British at the end of 1776 while he was holed up in a New Jersey tavern, loosely plotting to replace…

I’ll Trade You A General, Part One

American Major General Charles Lee had picked a great place to hide.

Like big-city mobsters two centuries later, George Washington’s second in command had discovered that New Jersey was a great place to lay low if someone was after you.

Governor Huey Long For Senate

There was a very real possibility that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be a one-term president.

He had won the White House in 1932, elected in a landslide by an angry and desolate American citizenry that was quickly becoming jobless, homeless, and…

Dare To Think Differently About Politics

The way Americans think about politics is the root cause of America’s political problems:

Remember the Ladies

Abigail Adams ran a farm, inoculated her children for smallpox, and was something of a real estate magnate, all while the British army and navy were besieging her town.

Martha Washington spent the winter at Valley Forge right alongside her husband and their freezing…